“…Emotional autobiographical memories were also found to be experienced with more vividness than were neutral memories (Schaefer & Philippot, 2005). However, emotion can have a detrimental effect on the specificity of autobiographical memory, as observed in patients with depression (Williams et al, 2007), posttraumatic stress disorder (Dalgleish, Rolfe, Golden, Dunn, & Barnard, 2008) or addictive behaviors (Gandolphe, Nandrino, Hancart, & Vosgien, 2013;Nandrino, Doba, Lesne, Christophe, & Pezard, 2006). With regard to our data, more episodic than semantic retrieval was observed, regardless of the cue valence, and no significant differences were observed across the three emotional conditions for the number of specific memories.…”